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Because Vail was using longer-range tags and readers, it was able to collect data for the application without making skiers and snowboarders stop and scan their passes at every lift.

Cutting Edge—and Cutting Risk Ben Worthen 2011

Gates said lawmakers appear so eager to fight over the longer-range Pentagon spending proposal that they are ignoring the near-term effects of not passing a new budget for the current year.

Robert Gates: Congress Dumping 'Crisis On My Doorstep' AP 2011

While the immediate target of the effort is Vietnam—one of the parties in the trade talks, whose state-owned industries such as its loss-ridden shipbuilders have sucked in state credit, but don't pose much of a competitive threat for the U.S.—people involved in the negotiations say the longer-range target is China's state-owned giants, which have become among the biggest and most profitable firms in the world, and which are looking to expand in the U.S.

In Trade Talks, U.S. Targets State Subsidies Bob Davis 2011

Robert Urwiler , the company's chief information officer, says that while Vail could have achieved its main goal with the shorter-range tags, he considered the longer-range ones "a bet on the future."

Cutting Edge—and Cutting Risk Ben Worthen 2011

Pakistan 's increased ability to produce plutonium — which is more potent than uranium and can be packed into smaller bombs — could boost its ability to develop longer-range cruise missiles with nuclear warheads, he added.

Pakistan Looks For U.S. Deal Tom Wright 2010

Sales of smaller business jets have been hit especially hard during the slump, while larger, longer-range business jets have proved resilient.

Rockwell Collins Sees Business-Jet Upturn David Kesmodel 2012

But wireless carriers want to exploit the longer-range technology of the cellular network.

Now, Even Granny's Fuzzy Slippers Are Texting You Shayndi Raice 2011

But U.S. officials said they have seen clear evidence that the Revolutionary Guard has transferred longer-range rockets to elements of the Taliban that significantly enhance their ability to target U.S. and other NATO forces.

Iran Funnels New Weapons to Iraq and Afghanistan Jay Solomon 2011

Its main problems were its distance from the city and the introduction of longer-range aircraft, making them less likely to stop over in Montreal.

London's new airport: should Beijing be a blueprint for the Isle of Grain? 2011

Vail chose to invest in newer, longer-range tags and readers capable of reading signals from 30 feet away, instead of a more-established RFID system that required tags and readers to be within 18 inches of each other to work.

Cutting Edge—and Cutting Risk Ben Worthen 2011